Rare Co-Winner Situation Precedes Andreikin Victory
The early Titled Tuesday this week featured a rare tie for first place, after GMs Bogdan-Daniel Deac and Aryan Tari not only both scored 9.5/11, but also had the same tiebreak score. The late tournament was then won outright by GM Dmitry Andreikin on 10/11.
Early Tournament
The early tournament saw 382 players participate. For most of the last third of the tournament, it appeared Tari would be lone winner, something he accomplished previously on March 1. He took the sole lead in the tournament in round eight with a win over GM Jose Ibarra, who had been perfect up to that point.
Tari maintained that lead through rounds nine and ten, then drew GM Daniel Naroditsky in the 11th round. That secured Tari at least a tie for first in the event of a decisive game between Deac and GM Vladimir Fedoseev (last week's late Titled Tuesday winner). In fact the two games were decided at nearly the same time, with Deac defeating Fedoseev.
The math of the tiebreak system makes it quite unlikely to have unbroken ties, although a recent Titled Tuesday did see a tie for third place. In this instance, Tari and Deac shared the victory.
July 5 Titled Tuesday | Early | Final Standings (Top 20)
| # | Rk | Fed | Title | Username | Name | Rating | Score | SB |
| 1 | 21 | GM | @BogdanDeac | Bogdan Daniel Deac | 2949 | 9.5 | 66.75 | |
| 1 | 22 | GM | @AryanTari | Aryan Tari | 2969 | 9.5 | 66.75 | |
| 3 | 5 | GM | @Duhless | Daniil Dubov | 3080 | 9 | 60.25 | |
| 4 | 2 | GM | @DanielNaroditsky | Daniel Naroditsky | 3130 | 9 | 55.75 | |
| 5 | 4 | GM | @GMWSO | Wesley So | 3059 | 9 | 54.75 | |
| 6 | 3 | GM | @FairChess_on_YouTube | Dmitry Andreikin | 3131 | 9 | 51.5 | |
| 7 | 8 | GM | @Oleksandr_Bortnyk | Oleksandr Bortnyk | 3052 | 8.5 | 54.5 | |
| 8 | 23 | GM | @HansOnTwitch | Hans Niemann | 2940 | 8.5 | 52 | |
| 9 | 6 | GM | @Bigfish1995 | Vladimir Fedoseev | 3039 | 8.5 | 51.25 | |
| 10 | 1 | GM | @Hikaru | Hikaru Nakamura | 3139 | 8 | 53 | |
| 11 | 35 | GM | @VerdeNotte | Gawain Jones | 2881 | 8 | 51.5 | |
| 12 | 34 | GM | @jcibarra | José Carlos Ibarra Jerez | 2887 | 8 | 48.5 | |
| 13 | 50 | GM | @ActorXu | Xu Yi | 2817 | 8 | 46.25 | |
| 14 | 12 | IM | @DenLaz | Denis Lazavik | 2951 | 8 | 45.25 | |
| 14 | 56 | CM | @dmitrijiIM | Dmitry Rostovtsev | 2742 | 8 | 45.25 | |
| 16 | 42 | IM | @mbojan | Bojan Maksimović | 2794 | 8 | 44.75 | |
| 17 | 44 | FM | @FEKKET-ESZTER | Jubin Jimmy | 2907 | 8 | 44.5 | |
| 18 | 13 | GM | @rasmussvane | Rasmus Svane | 2934 | 8 | 43 | |
| 19 | 75 | GM | @mitrabhaa | Mitrabha Guha | 2767 | 8 | 41.75 | |
| 20 | 10 | GM | @Jospem | Jose Martinez | 2992 | 8 | 41.5 | |
| 20 | 70 | GM | @attack2mateU | Razvan Preotu | 2776 | 8 | 41.5 | |
| 54 | 220 | IM | @Tekushka | Lilit Mkrtchian | 2515 | 7 | 33.5 |
(Full final standings here.)
Tari and Deac both won $875, the average of the first- and second-place prizes. Meanwhile, a four-way tie for third was fully broken, with GM Daniil Dubov winning $300 for third place, Naroditsky $150 for fourth, and GM Wesley So $100 for fifth. Andreikin just missed out but would more than make up for it in the late tournament. The $100 prize for highest-scoring woman went to Armenian IM Lilit Mkrtchian on 7/11.
Late Tournament
304 players joined the late tournament, the most in over a month. Andreikin lost to GM Grigoriy Oparin in the sixth round and did not take sole lead over the field until defeating Fedoseev in round ten.
Second place also went through Fedoseev, with GM Aram Hakobyan winning in the final round to reach 9.5 points and force Andreikin to at least draw for the tournament tie.
But instead of drawing his 11th-round game, Andreikin won again, producing checkmate on the board over Dubov, and secured first place for himself alone.
July 5 Titled Tuesday | Late | Final Standings (Top 20)
| # | Rk | Fed | Title | Username | Name | Rating | Score | SB |
| 1 | 1 | GM | @FairChess_on_YouTube | Dmitry Andreikin | 3131 | 10 | 63 | |
| 2 | 14 | GM | @Njal28 | Aram Hakobyan | 2992 | 9.5 | 61.75 | |
| 3 | 8 | GM | @Salem-AR | Salem AR Saleh | 2992 | 9 | 61.5 | |
| 4 | 5 | GM | @Oleksandr_Bortnyk | Oleksandr Bortnyk | 3052 | 9 | 60 | |
| 5 | 39 | GM | @Zhigalko_Sergei | Sergei Zhigalko | 2862 | 9 | 57.5 | |
| 6 | 7 | GM | @Jospem | Jose Martinez | 2992 | 8.5 | 51 | |
| 7 | 3 | GM | @Duhless | Daniil Dubov | 3080 | 8.5 | 49 | |
| 8 | 43 | GM | @K_A_S_T_O_R | Rodrigo Vasquez | 2827 | 8.5 | 48.25 | |
| 9 | 2 | GM | @GMWSO | Wesley So | 3059 | 8.5 | 42 | |
| 10 | 10 | IM | @0gZPanda | Anthony He | 2964 | 8 | 56.5 | |
| 11 | 4 | GM | @Bigfish1995 | Vladimir Fedoseev | 3039 | 8 | 51 | |
| 12 | 57 | GM | @alexrustemov | Alexander Rustemov | 2771 | 8 | 45.5 | |
| 12 | 9 | GM | @AryanTari | Aryan Tari | 2969 | 8 | 45.5 | |
| 14 | 28 | GM | @erichansen | Eric Hansen | 2905 | 8 | 43 | |
| 15 | 35 | FM | @honestgames | Egor Lashkin | 2870 | 8 | 42.75 | |
| 16 | 56 | GM | @Nikolakis2014 | Stelios Halkias | 2793 | 8 | 41 | |
| 17 | 20 | GM | @daro94 | Dariusz Swiercz | 2925 | 8 | 39.5 | |
| 18 | 147 | FM | @HalfIsCrayfish | Sebastian Półtorak | 2589 | 8 | 35.5 | |
| 19 | 145 | FM | @iliaguevnisim | Nisim Iliaguev | 2765 | 7.5 | 48.5 | |
| 20 | 37 | FM | @MarcoRiehle | Marco Riehle | 2846 | 7.5 | 42 | |
| 28 | 54 | GM | @ChessQueen | Alexandra Kosteniuk | 2756 | 7.5 | 33.75 |
(Full final standings here.)
Andreikin won $1,000 for the tournament victory and Hakobyan earned $750 for second. GM Salem Saleh, a winner last week, finished third for $300 here. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won $150 for fourth place and GM Sergei Zhigalko $100 for fifth, while GM Alexandra Kosentiuk won the $100 women's prize.
Nathaniel Green is a staff writer for Chess.com who writes articles, player biographies, Titled Tuesday reports, video scripts, and more. He has been playing chess for about 30 years and resides near Washington, DC, USA.
